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When Marshown Means woke up after undergoing surgery for more than two hours, the 6-year-old boy opened his eyes and smiled, his family said minutes after seeing him. The family breathed a collective sigh of relief when they learned the young boy would survive a shot to the chest after his 14-year-old uncle pulled the trigger Sunday morning, family and police said. “He was lucky,” said his grandmother Elisha Triplett as she sat in a waiting room at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Triplett, Marshown’s mom and a group of cousins, siblings and other relatives anxiously gathered at the hospital to see the active young boy who loves to rap and eat pizza...

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